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Friday,
March
7.
1975
THE
TIMES
Son
Dr.
Nolen
Looks
at
Faith
Healing
By
MARY
JANE
CLINTON
IN
SESSION
.
.
.
The
introduction
of
eight
provisional
members
and
plans
for
their
eleventh
annual
invitational
bridge
tournament
occupied
members
of
the
Auxiliary
to
the
Society
for
Crippled
Children
and
Adults
of
San
Mateo
County
who
met
Wednesday
at
Mrs.
Edgar
H.
Meakin's
Hillsborough
home
.
.
.
New
to
the
group
-and
ready
to
work
on
the
April
16
tournament
--
are
Mesdames
T.
Jack
Foster
Sr.,
Dennis
Hession,
David
Jackson,
William
Key
Jr.,
Sherrill
Parsons,
John
Raisin,
Glen
W.
Strawsburg
and
Henry
J-
Volonte.
Mrs.
Edwin
B.
Schwinger,
bridge
tournament
chairman,
announced
a
change
in
location
for
this
year's
play
.
.
.
Games
will
be
held
in
the
homes
of
four
Auxiliary
members:
Mesdarnes
Robert
Edwards,
Ellett
G.
Horsman,
Jack
How
and
Rodney
E.
Willoaghby
.
.
.
Invitations
will
be
in
the
mail
shortly
and
all
proceeds
go
to
the
workshop
for
Crippled
Children
and
Adults.
Mrs.
Harry
M.
Lawson,
newly-elected
president,
used
the
gathering
as
the
opportunity
to
.present
her
board
members
.
.
.
They
are
Mesdames
Walter
K.
Morris,
first
vice
president;
Edwin
E.
Adams,
second
vice
president;
Robert
Maxwell,
recording
secretary;
William
P.
Wooldridge,
corresponding
secretary;
and
Marten
Barry,
treasurer.
Later,
Betty
Chapman
and
Betty
Wood
told
highlights
of
a
Caribbean
cruise
on
which
they
both
took
their
mothers
.
.
.
Betty
Chapman
was
with
Irene
Johnson
of
Ann
Arbor,
Mich,
and
Betty
Wood
with
Mary
Palmer
of
Los
Altos
.
.
.
Becky
Madding
told
of
the
group
that
she
and
her
husband,
Gordon,
were
newly
returned
from
a
trip
to
Phoenix
and
to
St.
Petersburg,
Fla.
where
she'was
on
hand
for
her
father's
93rd
birthday
celebration
.
.
.
Gladys
Wenzell
said
that
she
and
her
husband,
Albert,
are
back
after
a
two
month
stay
in
Chile
and
noted
much
optimism
for
the
future
of
that
country
.
.
.
Several
members
and
their
husbands
had
vacationed
at
the
Balboa
Club
in
Mexico,
including
the
Clair
Cullenbines,
the
Robert
Maxwells,
the
Hal
Etters
and
Ruth
and
Kemper
Smith.
MENTAL
HEALTH
PARTY
.
.
.
Invitations
have
been
posted
for
The
Spring
Ball,
the
April
4
benefit
planned
by
the
Committee
for
Special
Events
of
the
Mental
Health
Association
of
San
Mateo
.
.
.
The
invitations,
2,000
of
them,
were
displayed
by
committee
member
Elwood
Hansen
when
the
group
met
recently
with
Mrs.
Hoyt
Herrald
of
Atherton,
chairman
.
.
.
Hansen's
Hillsborough
home
will
be
the
setting
on
Wednesday
for
a
kickoff
luncheon.
The
evening,
which
will
take
place
at
the
new
Sheraton
Inn
in
Burlingame,
will
include
a
fashion
show,
appearances
by
celebrities
and
dinner
and
dancing
.
.
.
Paul
Speegle
will
serve
as
master
of
ceremonies.
Other
committee
members
include
Jeanne
Redllck,
formerly
of
Hillsborough
and
now
of
San
Francisco;
Mrs.
Stanley
Stark
of
Hillsborough;
and
Paul
Hanley,
Mental
Health
Association
director.
BENEFIT
DATED
.
.
.
Research
on
Retinitis
Pig-
mentosa.
a
genetic
malady
that
eventually
causes
blindness,
will
benefit
from
a
wine
and
cheese
party
and
tea
dance
on
the
afternoon
of
March
16
at
the
Airport
Marina
Hotel
.
.
.
Bob
Lucas
will
provide
the
music
for
the
3
to
6
p.m.
event
and
a
weekend
at
the
La
Playa
in
Carmel
will
be
awarded
.
.
.
Yvonne
Giltain,
chairman,
has
announced
that
tickets
will
be
available
at
the
door
.
.
.
All
proceeds
will
be
sent
to
the
Harvard
Medical
Center
for
further
research
on
RP.
Educators
Slate
Conference
Date
By
MICHELLE
CARTER
Times
Staff
Writer
Dr.
Nolen
writes
again
-but
don't
expect
any
more
comfortable
homilies
about
the
life
and
times
of
the
small-town
Minnesota
surgeon.
This
time
the
good
doctor
who
sometimes
writes
(as
opposed
to
a
writer
who
sometimes
operates,
he
m
a
i
n
t
a
i
n
s
)
has
sunk
his
teeth
into
a
sensitive
and
topical
issue
--
faith
healing.
And
he's
come
up
a
winner.
Reporting
seems
to
come
as
comfortably
to
William
Nolen
as
removing
appendices
and
reducing
compound
fractures.
His
conversational
writing
style
which
he
perfected
in
his
earlier
books,
"The
Making
of
a
Surgeon"
and
"A
Surgeon's
World,"
serves
him
well
in
"Healing:
A
Doctor
in
Search
of
a
Miracle."
(Random
House,
$8.95).
In
"Healing,"
Dr.
Nolen
leads
his
readers
into
encounters
with
faith
healers
Kathryn
Kuhlman
and
Norbu
Chen
and
the
psychic
surgeons
of
the
Philippines
in
an
effort
to
discover
if
there
actually
were
other
avenues
to
renewed
health
besides
those
he
learned
in
medical
school.
He
admits
to
the
usual
doctor's
prejudices:
"I
sincerely
believed
that
we
(doctors)
did
have
a
monopoly
on
the
knowledge
it
took
to
heal
people
.
.
.
I
also
believed
that
if
we
doctors
didn't
know
how
to
cure
Local
women
educators
who
belong
to
Delta
Kappa
G
a
m
m
a
chapters
in
San
Mateo
and
Santa
Clara
Counties
will
meet
Saturday
for
their
annual
Area
IV
Conference.
The
Mediterranean
Center
at
the
San
Jose
Hyatt
House
will
be
the
setting
for
the
9:30
a.m.
to
2:30
p.m.
event.
"Changing
Times:
Challenge
or
Dilemma"
will
be
the
theme
of
the
conference
w
h
i
c
h
w
i
l
l
f
o
c
u
s
on
the
woman
educator
i.i
changing
times.
Addressing
the
group
in
the
morning
will
be
Mrs.
Mary
Lou
Zoglin,
a
member
of
the
board
of
governors
of
the
California
Community
Colleges.
Her
subject
will
be
"The
Road
to
the
Top
--
a
Personal
Viewpoint."
At
luncheon,
a
talk
on
someone,
we
could
at
least
be
certain
that
no
one
else
did,"
he
writes
in
the
book.
But
then
the
discovery
that
acupuncture
was
a
viable
form
of
medical
treatment
changed
his
mind
about
the
closed
club
of
medical
practitioners.
"I
didn't
let
the
'discovery*
of
acupuncture
turn
me
into
a
gullible
person,
but
I
did
resolve
that
I
would
no
longer
have
a
closed
mind."
So
when
he
set
out
to
uncover
the
truth
about
faith
healers
and
the
psychic
surgeons,
"1
was
as
objective
as
I
could
be.
You
can't
dissociate
yourself
from
your
background,
but
I
was
determined
not
to
prejudge
them,"
he
said
in
a
recent
interview.
The
book
traces
the
steps
he
took
on
his
investigation:
A
participating
role
in
a
Kathryn
Kuhlman
"miracle"
service,
a
visit
to
Norbu
Chen's
"church"
in
Houston
and
an
on-the-spot
observation
of
psychic
surgery
in
the
Philippines.
Through
each
investigation,
patterns
began
to
develop,
and
Dr.
Nolen
began
to
reach
the
conclusions
that
are
the
foundation
of
the
book.
Namely
that
he
was
able
to
document
not
one
single
case
"of
direct
intervention
of
an
organic
disease."
The
illnesses
that
respond
to
suggestion,
Dr.
Nolen
said,
are
the
ones
which
are
"cured"
--
the
bad
backs,
the
hearing
problems,
asthma,
migraines.
"But
you
never
see
a
bald
Dr.
William
A.
Nolen
man
grow
hair
or
a
withered
limb
become
normal.
These
are
things
that
you
could
actually
see,
but
they
never
happen.
"I
could
make
out
a
list
of
patients
who
would
never
be
helped
by
going
to
Kathryn
K
u
h
l
m
a
n
--
the
organic
diseases
such
as
cancer,
spinal
column
injuries
or
amputations.
These
are
things
she
can
never
cure,
but
healers
can't
put
limitations
on
things
they
can
do.
They
never
make
promises,
and
she
never
claims
that
she's
doing
the
healing.
How
can
she
say
'Here
are
the
things
the
Holy
Spirit
can't
do'."
Dr.
Nolen
followed
up
on
a
number
of
the
patients
who
appeared
on
stage
and
claimed
their
"cures"
at
the
Kuhlman
service,
and
the
results
of
that
research
supported
his
conclusions.
The
psychic
surgeons
of
the
Philippines
presented
a
flifferent
problem.
People
who
claimed
"cures"
described
"operations"
in
which
psychic
surgeons
inserted
their
hands
into
the
patients'
bodies
and
removed
cancerous
organs
and
tumors
and
gall
stones
spilling
only
a
trickle
of
blood
and
leaving
no
scars.
Many
of
them
had
films
of
these
"operations,"
and
their
"healing"
was
of
special
interest
to
Dr.
Nolen.
He
traveled
to
the
Philippines
with
the
father
of
a
child
who
supposedly
had
been
cured
of
a
brain
tumor
by
one
of
the
surgeons
(and
who
later
died
of
that
tumor),
and
what
he
found
was
chicanery,
sleight
of
hand
and
sloppy
magician-
ship.
"My
one
advantage
was
that
I
was
a
surgeon
and
I
knew
what
an
organ
or
a
tumor
looked
like.
People
who
go
to
them
are
ready
to
believe
so
they
(the
sur-
geons)
don't
have
to
be
very
good.
Surgery
is
so
mysterious
to
lay
people
and
the
sight
of
blood
so
shocking
that
people
dispense
with
their
critical
faculties."
Dr.
Nolen
notes
that
the
psychic
surgeons
are
effective
with
the
same
kinds
of
illnesses
that
the
faith
healers
succeed
with.
"Anything
helps
people
that
they
believe
helps
them.
If
symptoms
are
relieved
(and
they
can
be,
by
suggestion),
they
believe
they
are
cured."
They,
too,
never
make
promises
and
claim
to
receive
their
powers
from
a
supernatural
spirit
so
if
a
patient
isn't
cured,
he
believes
it's
his
fault,
not
the
surgeon's,
Dr.
Nolen
said.
In
an
attempt
to
explain
how
some
"cures"
are
actually
just
the
work
of
the
body
healing
itself,
Dr.
Nolen
cited
some
statistics:
"Of
every
10
patients,
seven
will
probably
get
better
whether
or
not
they
see
a
doctor.
The
other
30
per
cent,
that's
what
medicine
is
all
about.
Of
that
30
per
cent,
I
may
cure
70
per
cent
depending
on
the
disease.
"If
100
patients
with
skin
cancer
go
to
Norbu
Chen
or
Kathryn
Kuhlman,
zero
per
cent
will
be
cured.
If
100
patients
with
skin
cancer
go
to
a
doctor,
99
will
be
cured."
Dr.
Nolen
carefully
.avoids
discussing
motives
in
the
book
because
"it's-impossible
to
tell.
I'll
give
them
the
benefit
of
the
doubt."
But
he
goes
on
record
charging
irresponsibility
to
those
sensational
newspapers
and
magazines
that
build
up
the
faith
healers
and
psychic
surgeons.
"Imagine
the
frustration
of
the
father
of
a
child
with
a
brain
tumor
who
has
no
money
and
hears
about
a
man
in
the
Philippines
that
could
cure
his
child
for
$3,000."
He
admits
that
in
many
cases
the
healers
cause
little
harm
beyond
raising
false
hopes,
but
in
the
book
he
cites
an
example
of
a
patient
of
bis
who
put
off
cancer
surgery
until
she
could
try
a
psychic
surgeon.
By
the
time
she
came
back
to
him,
it
was
too
late
to
save
her.
Despite
his
efforts,
Dr.
Nolen
is
realistic
about
the
number
of
minds
he
will
change.
.
"If
it's
someone's
last
hope,
and
he
has'the
money,
he's
probably
going
to
give
it
a
try."
Dates
on
the
Club
Calendar
"Women
Leaders
in
California"
will
be
given
by
Pamela
Faust,
executive
director
of
the
California
Commission
on
the
Status
of
Women.
Vauden
Nelson
of
Gamma
Omega
Chapter
in
San
Jose
is
chairman
of
the
Area
Four
Conference
Committee.
Ass
i
s
t
i
n
g
her
is
Marjorie
Myers
of
Sunnyvale,
area
four
director.
San
Mateans
Observe
31st
Wedding
Date
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Clark
L.
Russell
of
San
Mateo
celebrated
their
31st
wedding
anniversary
at
the
matinee
performance
Andres
Segovia
gave
at
the
Masonic
.Auditorium
in
San
Francisco.
The
couple
also
dined
at
the
Ben
Jonson
restaurant
in
the
Cannery.
An
open-house,
j
u
r
i
e
d
membership
exhibition
heads
next
week's
roster
of
club
activities.
Thirty
and
One
Larry
Steelman,
a
Bay
Area
artist,
will
be
a
guest
at
the
Thirty
and
One
Artist'
open-house,
juried
membership
exhibition
on
Wednesday
at
7:30
p.m.
at
Baywood
School,
Alameda.
de
las
Pulgas,
San
Mateo.
The
session
is
open
to
the
public.
Refreshments
will
be
served
at
7:30
p.m.
before
the
8
p.m.
program.
Steelman,
immediate
past
president
of
the
Society
of
Western
Artists,
will
demonstrate
in
oils
his
own
style
showing
his
use
of
the
palette
knife
technique.
Mrs.
William
B.
Avison
of
San
Carlos
will
greet
the
guests.
Par
Avance
John
Ballo
of
Butterfield
and
Butterfield
will
discus
"Antiques
--
What
Is
an
Antique"
when
Par
Avance
meets
for
luncheon
Wednesday
at
12:30
p.m.
in
the
French
room
of
the
Villa
Hotel.
Mrs.
Rowland
Moulton
of
Hillsborough,
president,
has
asked
Mrs.
Worren
Wert
of
San
Mateo
to
arrange
details.
Mrs.
Don
Wallace
of
Hillsborough
has
arranged
a
BART
tour
for
March
20.
Members,
husbands
and
special
guests
will
leave
San
Francisco
at
10
a.m.
for
the
Oakland
Museum
where
they
will
view
the
special
Painters'
Exhibition,
the
only
showing
in
Northern
California.
Luncheon
will
follow.
-
Medical
Society
Laura
Chapelone
of
the
Burlingame
Garden
Center
will
speak
to
members
and
guests
of
the
Woman's
Auxiliary
to
the
San
Mateo
County
Medical
Society
at
a
meeting
on
Tuesday
at
11:30
a.m.
at
the
Hillsborough
home
of
Mrs.
Dean
Mawdsley.
Emphasis
of
the
talk
will
be
on
food-producing
plants
and
trees.
Persons
attending
are
being
asked
to
bring
a
brown
bag
lunch;
dessert
and
coffee
will
be
provided.
AAUW
Jim
Collins,
instructor
in
the
economics
department,
at
Canada
College
will
discuss
"Economic
Facts
of
Life
--
Living
with
Less"
when
the
San
Carlos
Branch
of
the
American
Association
of
University
Women
meets
Tuesday
at
the
First
United
Methodist
Church,
Broadway
and
B
r
t
w
s
t
e
r
,
Redwood
City.
Refreshments
from
10
to
10:30
a.m.
will
precede
the
program.
New
members
of
the
group
are
Lynn
Brown,
Andrea
Clague,
Olive
Clardy,
Gayle
DeChaine,
Mary
Jane
Dodson,
Carmelia
Engberg,
Arlene
Evans,
Donna
Farmer,
June
Farris,
Lynne
Firestone,
Jane
Hazlett,
Sue
Henson,
Rachel
Hughes,
Beth
Jay,
Christina
Kageyama,
Beverly
Or
ton,
Sandra
Perry,
Idalee
Pitino,
Catherine
St.
Clair,
Patricia
Stephens,
Marilyn
Stewart,
Carol
Tager,
Louise
Takamori,
Barbara
Tall
and
Cecily
Zillmer.
Membership
information
may
be
obtained
by
contacting
Lyla
Schneider,
137
Ruby,
San
Carlos.
Fuchsia
Society
Norma
Grunke,
president
of
the
San
Francisco
Branch
of
the
American
Fuchsia
Society,
will
speak
on
"Spring
Fuchsia
Culture"
when
the
San
Mateo
County
Branch
meets
Tuesday
at
8
p.m.
at
the
Machinists'
Building,
ISO
South
Bouleard,
San
Mateo.
Grunke
will
include
feeding
and
cultural
practices,
p
i
n
c
h
i
n
g
and
shaping
of
plants
and
saving
of
cuttings
for
reproduction.
He
will
be
introduced
by
Jack
Rehbock
of
Belmont,
first
vice
president.
David
Barbieri
of
Redwood
City
will
preside
at
the
meeting
which
is
open
to
the
public.
Clubwomen
"Spring
and
the
Joy
of
Music"
will
be
presented
to
members
of
the
North
Burlingame
Woman's
Club
at
a
meeting
Tuesday
in
the
West
Winchester
Room
of
the
Villa
Chattier.
A
social
hour
at
11:30
a.m.
will
precede
the
12:30
p.m.
luncheon.
Mrs.
Michael
Roberts
is
in
charge
of
arrangements.
Joy
Molder
will
sing
accompanied
by
Mrs.
Sylvio
Massolo.
Nairobi
Day
School
Benefit
Concert
Set
The
Edwin
Hawkins
Singers
will
present
a
benefit
concert
Saturday
in
Palo
Alto
to
raise
funds
to
restore
the
building
of
the
Nairobi
Day
School
in
East
Palo
Alto
which
was
damaged
by
fire
last
month.
The
Singers
will
perform
at
8
p.m.
at
the
Stanford
Music
Hall,
221
University
Ave.,
Palo
Alto.
Tickets
are
available
at
2358
University
Ave.,
East
Palo
Alto,
and
at
the
door.
The
Nairobi
Day
School
and
H
i
g
h
School
were
founded
by
Gertrude
Wilks,
who
now
serves
as
director,
as
an
alternative
school
for
blacks.
The
high
school
and
day
school
both
are
operating
in
temporary
quarters
until
the
buildings
can
be
restored.
The
club
will
sponsor
a
St.
Patrick's
party
on
March
20
at
Casa
Madonna
Convalescent
Home
for
the
Aged.
PAGS
Mary
Laycock,
math
and
logic
specialist
at
Nueva
Day
School,
will
speak
at
Wednesday's
meeting
of
the
Peninsula
Association
for
Gifted
Students
(PAGS).
The
session
will
start
at
8
p.m.
at
the
Gifted
Resource
Center,
Suite
107,
609
Price
Avenue,
Redwood
City.
Mrs.
Laycock
will
present
a
workshop
of
games
to
be
played
with
pre-school
through
upper
grade
students.
The
meeting
is
open
to
all
parents.
World
Wings
World
Wings
has
invited
all
current
and
former
Pan
American
Airways
steward-
C
a
si
no
Night
Â·
Benefit
Slated
For
Saturday
A
Casino
Night
benefit
including
gaming,
music
and
hors
d'oeuvres
has
been
planned
for
Saturday
to
raise
funds
for
the
Muscular
Dystrophy
Associations
of
America
and
the
San
Francisco
Junior
Chamber
of
Commerce.
Jerry
Schreck
of
San
Mateo
is
chairman
of
the
8
p.m.
to
midnight
event
which
will
conclude
with
an
auction.
Setting
for
the
benefit
will
be
the
historic
Maybeck
building,
now
occupied
by
British
Motor
Car
Distributors
Ltd.
It
is
located
at
901
Van
Ness
Ave.,
San
Francisco.
Carter
B.
Smith
of
KNBR
Radio
will
be
master
of
ceremonies.
Reservations
are
limited,
and
may
be
made
by
writing
MDA-SFJCC
Casino
Night,
Suite
600,
24
California
Street,
San
Francisco
94111.
esses
to
attend
a
meeting
Wednesday
at
the
San
Mateo
home
of
Dianne
Nowland.
President
is
Dorothy
Hushing.
Mills
Women
The
Mills
Estate
Women's
Club
will
meet
for
luncheon
Wednesday
at
the
Villa
Chartier.
No-host
cocktails
at
11:30
a.m.
will
precede
the
12:30
p.m.
session.
Mrs.
Richard
Lapic
is
taking
reservations.
St.
Catherine's
St.
Catherine's
Woman's
Club
will
have
a
general
m
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s
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p
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t
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on
Wednesday
at
1
p.m.
in
the
school
auditorium.
A
program
on
hair
styles
will
follow
the
business
session.
Coffee
and
dessert
will
be
served.
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